This is the best article on it. If you want to fish for an earlier version of it, go to the story of reduced choice in soft drinks in the Dilbert Principle. C

This is the best article on it. If you want to fish for an earlier version of it, go to the story of reduced choice in soft drinks in the Dilbert Principle. Cost cutting like this is a sign of either a general focus on margins (moving from early stage to later stage) or outright financial trouble. In either case, a lot depends on your temperament. If you like stable companies (first case) or believe in going down with the ship because of a connection to the founders (latter case) it's worth staying. Then again, if the place is becoming boring, you don't want to be the only free thinker in Mayberry.